PerX News

• 5-6th June 2007 - PerX – Investigating Subject Based Resource Discovery Issues in Digital Repositories. Poster Presentation [MS Powerpoint file 439KB] at Digital repositories: Dealing with the digital deluge, University of Manchester 5-6th June 2007.
  
  
• 25th May 2007 - Forthcoming PerX Paper: Building Bridges with Blocks: Assisting digital library and Virtual Learning Environment integration through reusable middleware. S. Chumbe, R.A. MacLeod, and M.Kennedy: Paper presented at ELPUB 2007 (13th-15th June), the 11th International Conference on Electronic Publishing, focusing on challenges for the digital spectrum, Vienna, Austria.
  
  
• 10th May 2007 - Embedding PerX Toolkit in BlackBoard VLE Report Available
  
  
• 28th March 2007 - PerX Setup and Maintenance Report now available.
  An important aspect of the PerX project was to consider the setup and maintenance issues relating to cross-search targets (including OAI-PMH, Z39.50 and non-standard) which were included in the PerX pilot service, and also to attempt to quantify the effort required. This document provides details of the set-up and maintenance effort expended by the PerX team for a 12 month period between March 2006 and February 2007.
  
  
• 28th March 2007 - OAI-PMH Metadata Augmentation Report Available
  
  
• November 2006 - Civil Engineering Cross Search Demonstrator Available - This is a separate trial instance of the pilot based on a particular user group’s needs
  
  
• 27th October 2006 - Article about PerX Project in Research Information.
  Text of a paper in Research Information - Digital Repositories: Building an information infrastructure in the UK

• 19th October 2006 - PerX – Investigating Subject Based Resource Discovery Issues in Digital Repositories. Poster Presentation [MS Powerpoint file 450KB] at Open Scholarship 2006, University of Glasgow 18-20 October 2006.
  
  
• 19th October 2006 - Perx Shared Services Report Available.
  

• 17th July 2006 - PerX cross-search demonstrator Questionnaire results now available.

• 17th July 2006 - PerX Focus Group Report on the cross-search demonstrator now available.

• 16th June 2006 - The PerX Project - not just for engineers.
  Text of a paper for E-MmITS, the electronic newsletter of the Multimedia and Information Technology Group Scotland.

• 9th June 2006 - Overcoming the obstacles of harvesting and searching digital repositories from federated searching toolkits, and embedding them in  VLEs.
  Text of a paper presented at the 2nd International Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems , Athens, Greece.

• 12th April 2006 - Give us feedback on the Perx Pilot and Win £100 Amazon vouchers!
  An important purpose of the PerX pilot is to help us scope a possible future cross-search service. We would very much appreciate your feedback so that we can scope the type of service you really need.
  
  
• 14th March 2006 - PerX Pilot subject-based cross-repository search tool available.
  A basic pilot engineering cross-repository search tool is now available. Futher content sources will be added, and feedback sought, over the coming months.
  
  
• 8th March 2006- Perx Advocacy material now available.
  The JISC funded PerX project has released an advocacy document entitled "Marketing with Metatdata - How Metadata Can Increase Exposure and Visibility of Online Content" which introduces the means by which content providers can share, or embed, their descriptive data (metadata), with other websites, in standard and reusable ways.
  
  
• 10th November 2005 - PerX Listing of Engineering Repository Sources and Landscape Anaysis available.
  The project has released two documents entitled 'Engineering Digital Repositories Landscape Analysis' and 'Listing of Engineering Repository Sources'. These documents will inform the production of a Engineering Repository cross search pilot service.